Forget The Heart And Aim For The Eye Poem by James McLain

It is as graphic as it is stark I know
Known before the foundation of the world
What lies so dark in the hearts
of some woman and men

Hands chained together
around your back, a foot apart
Ropes casting high shadows
draped over a child's swing set

One woman and two men
Hoisted up in the air by what
once were the hands of friends

The men move in the air they are still
Some how you think with out the fall
The woman arches her back and kicks
her feet but the chains are to heavy to move

After thirty seconds of forever she leaves
And comes back over here
Like her lips, her fate was sealed at birth